Percentage of visitors relative to each country's population, top 20<p><pre><code> Switzerland 2.30
Sweden 1.73
Ireland 1.63
Denmark 1.55
Norway 1.48
Netherlands 1.43
Canada 1.26
Finland 1.25
United Kingdom 1.25
United States 1.24
Singapore 1.23
Australia 1.13
Austria 1.01
Slovenia 0.95
Lithuania 0.79
Croatia 0.73
Germany 0.70
Portugal 0.68
Israel 0.53
Hong Kong 0.53
</code></pre>
Via OCR/manual proofing/chatgpt population lookup/spreadsheet calculation.<p>I didn't include countries that had less than 0.2% of the visitors because of the error margin caused by the low number of significant digits. Iceland at 0.1% and a population of 370k, for example...
>The data suggests that the majority of users come from the United States<p>41.2% is not the majority…<p>Interesting data though, thanks for it. At what UTC time range was the Google Shutdown post at the top of the board?
Weighting countries by 1/population would be interesting and maybe more
useful to see the demographic.<p>Or to put it another way if euro becomes
one country and US splits into states the stats look a lot different but the same people are using HN all the same.
I felt that this is more in general trend with most websites, especially with visits from India. Despite being one of the most populous country with "high internet penetration", Indians usually don't seem to visit websites.<p>I know the post's is the data is from HackerNews visitors over a certain period of time -- when it was working time across USA's timezone.<p>Even on my own personal website (I'm Indian), India is like the 4th highest visitor with a hugh margin of difference from USA's visit. It, however, does catches up with USA to my family website though the difference still remains high with the top visitors - USA.
Funnily enough, my HN account is 12 years old and back then I was located in Bangladesh with no concrete plan to come to the US. The US-centric nature of HN (or Reddit, 8yr old account) never bothered me, rather it gave more context to those post/comment tones.
You should filter out IP of VPN and hosting providers(VPS) <a href="https://github.com/X4BNet/lists_vpn/">https://github.com/X4BNet/lists_vpn/</a> and
then account for day/night cycle around the world.
Interesting to see UK and Germany taking the 2nd and 3rd spots. Is there any easy explanation for why UK and Germany are at the next two spots? Is UK the next hotspot for IT after US? Is Germany too? What about China and India? Does it not have more IT crowd than UK or Germany? Or most of them don't visit HN? Interested in understanding these trends better.
There's also a poll: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378</a>
I don't like that France's color in the chart is more orange than the Netherlands'.<p>Come on fellow Dutchies, we gotta move up one spot!
Should be supplemented with a per capita weighted graph.<p>Yeah, this is a tantrum... sorry...<p>I cannot wait to have IPv6/IPv4 HN access stats too... :P
I wonder if the demographics are skewed due to Google being a US company, and thus perhaps people that aren't from there show less interest in the topic.
An obligatory reminder, esp. for US-based folks, that when creating posts/comments when writing things like 'our country', 'the president', 'here', 'in the parliament', 'the law says', 'everybody here knows', and not specifying geographical details, you're somewhat confusing and potentially irritating ~60% of HN community.